Profile


Georgios Leontidis is a Marie Curie ITN Early Stage Researcher within the School of Computer Science in the University of Lincoln, UK, participating at the REVAMMAD project which extends across 10 partner sites in 6 European countries (France, UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Greece).
He holds an Engineering Diploma in Electronics and Computers and a Master of Science in Medical informatics from the University of Athens,Greece. His research interests focus on Medical image analysis and processing, specializing in Retina segmentation techniques and Medical Statistics
In addition, he has occupied himself with the Monte Carlo simulations and its application on generating benign and malignant masses in mammographies.
Currently he is working in the field of Diabetic retinopathy, investigating the possibility of detecting and screening the diabetic retinopathy in a very early stage, prior to the appearance of micro aneurysms and other lesions.

Georgios is the chair representative of all the 13 Marie Curie Researchers in the project and his responsibilities include organising E-lectures from experts on different fields.

Awards

  • Marie Curie Mirco-Grant — MCAA-EU, 2014
  • Marie Curie ITN 3-Year Research Fellowship — EU-FP7 Marie Curie actions

Professional Affiliations

  • Higher Education Academy — Associate Fellow
  • Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology — Member
  • IEEE EMBS Society — Member
  • IEEE — Member
  • German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology — Member
  • Institute of Engineering and Technology — MIET

External Activities and Consultancy

Editor in the Directory of Open Access journals
Reviewer in PLOS ONE
Reviewer at the Journal of Bioinformatics and Biomedical engineering of American Institute of Science 
Reviewer for the 7th international multi-conference in complexity, informatics and cybernetics, San Francisco 8-11 March, 2016 of the international institute of informatics and systemics
Supervision of Undergraduate final year projects
Chair representative and president of the ESRs at the REVAMMAD Project